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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

splat
    n 1: a single splash; "he heard a splat as it hit the floor"
    2: a slat of wood in the middle of the back of a straight chair
    v 1: give off the sound of a bullet flattening on impact
    2: split open and flatten for cooking; "splat fish over an open
       fire"
    3: flatten on impact; "The snowballs splatted on the trees"

2. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003)

splat
 n.

    1. Name used in many places (DEC, IBM, and others) for the asterisk (*)
    character (ASCII 0101010). This may derive from the ?squashed-bug?
    appearance of the asterisk on many early line printers.

    2. [MIT] Name used by some people for the # character (ASCII 0100011).

    3. The feature key on a Mac (same as alt, sense 2).

    4. obs. Name used by some people for the Stanford/ITS extended ASCII ?
    character. This character is also called blobby and frob, among other
    names; it is sometimes used by mathematicians as a notation for tensor
    product.

    5. obs. Name for the semi-mythical Stanford extended ASCII ? character. See
    also ASCII.

3. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)

splat

   1. Name used in many places (DEC, IBM, and others) for the
   asterisk ("*") character (ASCII 0101010).  This may derive
   from the "squashed-bug" appearance of the asterisk on many
   early line printers.

   2. Name used by some MIT people for the "#" character (ASCII
   35).

   3. (Rochester Institute of Technology) The feature key on a
   Mac (same as alt).

   4. An obsolete name used by some people for the
   Stanford/ITS extended ASCII circle-x character.  This
   character is also called "blobby" and "frob", among other
   names; it is sometimes used by mathematicians as a notation
   for "tensor product".

   5. An obsolete name for the semi-mythical Stanford extended
   ASCII circle-plus character.

   See also ASCII.

   [Jargon File]

   (1995-01-19)

Thesaurus Results for splat:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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